Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-05
ROGHIl Iin0QOE.
Adapted and Translated from the French
Of Jules Mary.
BY OLIVE HARPER.
CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VII
The case dragged on for several days. and
nothing of Importance interviewed. To all the
questions Roger answered:
a am innocent. but shall not defend my
self They can do as they please with me-"
He delivered himself up to the fatality
which seemed to have taken possession of
him II there had been the least dClbt in the
mind OF the justices or lack of connecting
links in the chain of evidence, Roger might
have been saved, but unhappily everything
seemed to point to his guilt and al these
things formed in the mind OF NJ. De Lisne-
ROLES an unehakable proof. After this first
examination The case was sent up 10 the court
of assize-, of S.neet Disc, then IN session at
Versailles.
Henriette learned this through the papers.
She went ont III more aud SEEMED buried in
strange torpor, mental and physical She
never pronounced u word ana even seemed %
forget the existence Of her iItelc girl, and sat
hours without moving OF appearing to see.
She ate almost nothing ana did not attempt
To 90 to bed at ALL and if she did sleep it vas
sitting in her char.
Her little girl watched over her as if she
was the mother and Henriette the child, and
she doubtless would have starved had it not
been for the child
Henrietta had an uncle who lived at some
thirty or forty mIrS from there, and hearing
of his .niece's trouble, he and his good old
wife I,ft their home and foundry and
hastened to her and the clil,lless old couple
did eyerytbips, they cauid possibly imagine to
tighten her sad load.
One morning Heuriette was gone. There
was no trace nj her to be discovered and the
most diEgeur saarrb revealed nothing, until
ono day some six ar s.ven DAYS after her dis
onnaar,nc. g, ,,,ltc.,n,p fnnnd ON the hank
Of the river a tiny slipper which was recog-
nizod ms hers
Than -h,,- dr.,r.e4J tho rfvar. and saarcbad
for miles along it, hanks but they never
found the hody Of moor FIenriette. and the
nnrIa and ami remained in the bonse 10 keen
CHARGE of il uptl Rogers trial was ended
JittIe Suzanp4 sat Iisf!es, and male in her
char day after day. rousing but seldom,
thouab she never mentioned the absence of
her father nor thu, dreadful ordeal through
which she had passed
Nine De Noirville had dreamed of ven
gennce. She was now avenged more com
pietely than she had wished She had threat
ened Roger with it, weight. Revenge me,
but revenge me Welt she had cried 10
LuverSan: their compact was concluded A
few days after this LuverSan, and only two
hours after the muder OF Larouette, appeared
at a ball where Julia was He was some
what pale, but cool and correct, and his dress
was irreproaChabe. He came up to her and
handed her package OF bank notes
What is this" asked she
"The 100000 francs which you owe Roger
Laroque Tomorrow morning he must have
these III his possession without fault or fail
ure.
II thought he was III very straitened cir
cumstanctsF
lie Is
"Then this Is safety Is that my ven
geanceP
Through that he is lost
Il will do 1t, though 10 not understand
II"
She took the notes and Ind them while Lu-
versan showed himself a few moments among
the guests. The next morning she drove to
Laroque and left him the package of money,
with what results we know.
1t was twoOT three days later before Lucien